AWH Colour Creations Blog Hop #8 Lemon Lolly

Lemon Lolly with Lighting the Way Fancy Fold

Hello. Welcome to Valley Inspirations with Andrea and the Art with Heart Colour Creations Blog Hop. We are working though the Stampin' Up! colours in alphabetical order, focussing on one colour each week. We have started with the new In Colours and are currently focussing on the newly introduced Core Colours.

This week’s Blog Hop is focussing on a pale yellow called Lemon Lolly. Lemon Lolly is part of the Subtles Colour Family and is a delightful light clean yellow. This colour would be lovely for a baby card, flowers and providing a sense of light. As with the other new colours, I am exploring coordinating colours but I think it work’s well with other Subtles like Bubble Bath, Fresh Freesia, Soft Sea Foam and Lost Lagoon as well as a gorgeous deep blue, Misty Moonlight (as used in the card below).

Lemon Lolly is produced in Stampin' Up!'s card-stock, both A4 & 12"x12"; Classic Stampin' inks (ink pads & re-inkers); Stampin' Write Marker; Stampin' Blends Combo; Subtles Designer Series Paper as well as Fresh As A Daisy, Bright & Beautiful, Masterfully Made DSPs; plus Sheer Ribbon Combo Pack; and Adhesive-backed Solid Gems and Opaque Ovals.

Lemon Lolly card-stock, ink, Bright & Beautiful DSP, Lemon Lolly Sheer Ribbon and Adhesive-backed Solid Gems have been used in the creation of this project plus a range of non-Lemon Lolly bits and pieces.

I really enjoyed playing with this colour and getting to know Lemon Lolly. I decided to interpret this beautiful colour with the concept of light so Lighting the Way seemed the perfect bundle. I had wondered about incorporating an easel fold with a tea light but changed my ideas. Yesterday, when I saw Lisa Curio’s recent u-Tube, I decided to use her fancy fold as the basis for my card.

The Swinging Easel-like fold was cut and scored in a Lemon Lolly cardstock card-base. The background features a Lemon Lolly striped design from the Bright & Beautiful Designer Series Paper. This beautiful DSP is on sale, together with other DSPs, for the month of June. Don’t miss out benefitting from Stampin’ Up!s DSP Sale. It’s a great opportunity to purchase some DSP that has been on your Wish List.

Once the card has been taken from the envelope it will stand upright, with a centre fold in the front of the card. Here is a top view of the fancy fold:

Now to key points of how it was created:  A piece of Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper was wet on wet water-coloured using Lemon Lolly and Soft Sea Foam Classic Stampin’ inks, the wide tip Water Painter and a Heat Tool to move ink around and to dry the panel. Using the Lighting the Way dies, the lantern was die cut in Misty Moonlight card-stock. Fireflies were die cut from Basic White card-stock and a little Vellum cardstock for the larger firefly’s wings. The Sentimental Park dies were used to cut different sized flowers and leaves from Fluid 100 Watercolor Paper. Once the water-coloured panel had fully dried, it was stamped with some grasses using Soft Sea Foam Classic ink. Extra Lemon Lolly ink was stamped using the largest round stamp so that it would sit under the lantern. The fireflies had a little Lemon Lolly ink blended over their tails.

The Misty Moonlight die cut lantern was partially gilded with Gilded Leafing and touches of Multipurpose Liquid Glue. To thinly apply glue, I used the ‘other’ end of the glue that has a slanted applicator. I rarely use this end but it is brilliant to thinly apply flat areas of glue. The glue was left to get a bit more tacky before adding flakes of the Gilded Leafing and then brushing off the excess gold. I love this effect. The flowers were water-coloured with Bubble Bath ink; the ‘holy’ flowers were coloured with Fresh Freesia ink and the leaves with Soft Sea Foam and touches of Lost Lagoon inks. 

All the pieces were arranged, and either Dimensionals, Glue Dots or Liquid Glue were used to adhere them in place. Some Lemon Lolly Sheer ribbon was looped through the lantern’s top ring and it was tied in place with some White Bakers Twine.

While this photo shows the card inner, it includes the stopper to hold the card front in its folded position. As you can see, some of the Lemon Lolly striped DSP was added to the right. (This card used one 6x6” Lemon Lolly striped DSP sheet.) A sentiment from the Lighting the Way stamp set was stamped in Misty Moonlight ink on Basic White card-stock, before being die cut with one of the Nested Essentials dies. The label needed to be cut down so it aligns within the strip of DSP. To achieve this the label die was moved to trim down one side and then the other side. Also, an extra firefly, some flowers and leaves were scattered around with a few Opaque Gems. A Basic White C6 Envelope was decorated with the last piece of DSP and was stamped with grasses in Soft Sea Foam ink across the bottom of the envelope.

Thank you so much for dropping in. I so appreciate you.

There is more Lemon Lolly creativity, so do continue with the blog hop. Just click the "next" graphic below to be taken to the blog of the lovely Christine Blain. I am looking forward to checking out Christine’s creation. I do love seeing everyones' projects - there is always so much inspiration.

I hope to see you next week when we will be featuring Pecan Pie, another of the new core Colours, as we continue the weekly 2023-2024 Colour Creations Blog Hop series. 

Stay well, stay safe and be kind to yourself and others.

Andrea 💕🐾

If you find a broken link or would like to view the full list of participants go to Catherine Proctor’s blog @ What Cathy Made. Cathy is our wonderful Art With Heart Team Colour Creations Coordinator.  She is a special lady. Check out her delightful creation while you are there.

If you live in Australia, don't already have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and would like your own copy of the new Stampin' Up 2023-2024 Annual Catalogue, then let me know and I will be delighted to send it to you.  Please don't hesitate to make contact with any other queries about this project or Stampin' Up!

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